We’re a pretty laid back bunch of Badgers and
nothing upsets us very much apart from when
somebody takes a gulp of our pint of bitter, then we
might show our teeth.
We also don’t like it when people steal our photographs. We have been
known to let people use them if they ask nicely but it’s downright rude to
just take them.
We sometimes add a copyright symbol to photos and sometimes not if
we’re editing the site whilst three sheets to the wind but it should be clear
that our photos are just that - ‘ours’
Sometimes the quality of photos isn’t brilliant, they’re mostly the one’s on
the tourist information county pages as they haven’t changed since 1984
when everyone was using dial up to get on the internet and photos had
to be very small - we’re slowly getting around to upgrading them but
some of the old photos need to be re-scanned and they’ve been stashed
away in boxes somewhere that aren’t that easy to locate. Some of them
were taken in bad weather and weren’t always the best quality anyway
and we don’t often get to re-visit somewhere to take a new one.
We’ve now got nearly half a million photos in our archives either scanned or digital. We started taking digital photos in 2000 with a Kodak DC210 and they were
somewhat blurry at around 100 Kb compared to the 20 Mb shots that we currently use.
If any of our photos don’t have the copyright symbol, it doesn’t mean they aren’t ours or aren’t copyrighted.